3rd November 2026 – (Hong Kong) Former Demosisto secretary-general Joshua Wong Chi-fung, who has already pleaded guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign or external forces to endanger national security, is due to be sentenced in the High Court this Thursday, 5th November.
According to the Judiciary’s website, Mr Justice William Tam Yiu-ho will pass sentence in the case, Wong, 29, faces a single count of conspiracy to collude with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security. He admitted the charge at an earlier hearing and has been awaiting the court’s decision on sentence.
The prosecution alleges that between 1st July 2020 and 23rd November 2020, while in Hong Kong, he conspired with Nathan Law Kwun-chung — who has since gone into exile in Britain — and with other persons whose identities remain unknown. The alleged object of the conspiracy was to request foreign or external institutions, organisations or individuals to impose sanctions, a blockade or other hostile measures against the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government or the People’s Republic of China.
Wong previously served as secretary-general of Demosisto, the now-disbanded political group; Law was among its founding figures before leaving Hong Kong. The indictment frames the July-to-November 2020 window as the period in which the alleged request for overseas pressure was said to have been pursued from within the city, after the National Security Law had come into force at the end of June that year.
The charge is framed under the national security regime that treats collusion with foreign or external forces as a serious offence. By entering a guilty plea, Wong has accepted the factual basis of the count as put by the prosecution, leaving the court to determine the appropriate term once mitigation and other sentencing considerations have been weighed. Thursday’s listing confirms that the adjournment for sentence has now been fixed for 5th November before Mr Justice Tam.
Until that hearing, the formal position remains that a convicted defendant who has admitted conspiring to solicit foreign sanctions, blockades or hostile action against the HKSAR Government or the mainland authorities awaits sentence in HCCC 181/2026. The court has not yet indicated what term it will impose; the Judiciary notice simply records that sentencing will proceed this Thursday before the designated High Court judge. Parties and the public will learn the outcome only when Mr Justice Tam delivers his decision in open court on 5th November.